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From: wfmc@eci.UUCP (Wayne F. M. Clapper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: firmware password on 3B2/400
Message-ID: <1204@eci.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 02:33:17 GMT
References: <17493@netnews.upenn.edu> <4622@drutx.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: wfmc@eci.UUCP (Wayne F. M. Clapper)
Organization: The Eggonomic Center for Information (ECI)
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In article <4622@drutx.ATT.COM> darryl@drutx.ATT.COM (JacobsD) writes:
>In article <17493@netnews.upenn.edu> blackman@hodgkin.med.upenn.edu (David Blackman) writes:
>>I have acquired an AT&T 3B2/400.  The system administrator for the
>>machine has left town.  My problem is that I don't know the firmware
>
>If you don't have the root password, you must disconnect the battery on the
>motherboard, as has been described previously.
>
>-- 
Don't forget to leave it unplugged for at least 30-45 minutes to drain 
the memory (DRAM?)